Vulnerability in Niels Provos Libevent
CVE-2007-1030
Niels Provos libevent 1.2 and 1.2a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a DNS response containing a label pointer that references its own offset.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.031 (87.3th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.030 · newest: 0.031 · change: +0.001
Affected products
- Niels Provos Libevent — versions 1.2, 1.2a
References
- secunia.com/advisories/24181 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0647 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/22606 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/33228 (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/2268 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460530/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)